In my day in Baltimore, MD (not MA, don't get confused), Pabst Blue Ribbon was mainstream, along with Miller High Life, Budweiser, Schlitz and Shaefer. The domestic high-end beer was Michelob, Rolling Rock was somewhat exotic, Baltimore's beer was National Bohemian, and imported beers were Lowenbrau (though what we got of it was brewed in the USA by Miller) and Heineken (which was for effetely snobbish rich boys). Poor college boys drank Red White & Blue or Weideman, and Colt 45 was the choice of middle-aged African-American alcoholics.

I could recommend Kroger's house lager they named Tap Room 21 (photo below too), despite the reviews, because it can't be that bad given that their Pale Ale will do if I can't afford anything better. How likely is it that a brewery's "normal" beer would suck ass if their "craft" beer was drinkable? Someday I might actually buy some Tap Room 21 Lager just to say I did, though I don't see the point of paying over $1 a beer for an American Pale Lager when Michelob usually costs about the same or less and that's already proven a tasty-enough safe bet. (This is because I'm a mature adult and not a hive-minded "hipster.")

By the way, I've gone out of my way to be helpful to you young people; if you can't see and follow the links in this post you should learn how to use a real computer with a real web browser. This business of farking around on your "smart" phone or tablet is wrongheaded and evil and will destroy the Internet for everybody else. Grow up or GTFO.

MNguy:Beer snobs who drink IPAs that are like 8% and take notes on the 'flowery' aftertaste are worse than hitler hipsters

They're just an older version of the same attitude

bugmn99:I hope to Jebus they don't take up homebrewing. I don't need to hear their shiat in the homebrew forums about all of the amazing ingredients they use and the innovative brewing methods they came up with.

How could you tell the difference, isn't that how most of them are now anyway?

It's actually pretty easy to define hipster generally, It's just hard in the specifics. Hipster is a derivation of scenester, which can be quickly defined as someone who joins a subculture because they think it is cool rather than actually embracing the things that sub culture is about. A hipster expands this beyond just joining a subculture. So the general definition of a hipster is: Someone who does things because they think it is hip rather than actually caring or knowing about that thing.

The specifics of it are hard because what may be considered hip is fluid. That results in hipsters having an amalgamation of hip things that don't make much sense together like someone with a PBR tattoo, handlebar mustache, and prominently displayed iPhone who is reading a Chuck Palahniuk book in a Starbucks.

That's probably the best possible description of the term I've seen, both in text and in-person. A few months ago I ran into a guy at a local beer bar who had a "Visit Nantucket" baseball cap, eyeglasses that could have been straight off of Jerry Seinfeld's TV dad's face, a 3/4-length T-shirt with iron-on letters, & tight striped pants. He was in his 30s, had a porn-star mustache, was drinking a 40oz Miller High Life (at the bar), and failing spectacularly in his attempt to hit on one of my friends. I still kind of shudder when I think about it.

Snobbery aside, I really hope Narragansett doesn't become the new hip thing, as it's a terrific, cheap summertime beer.

PBR Mainstream!!! It always was. Everybody drank it when I was growing up (in the 70's). Also Olympia, Schlitz, Hamms, Black Label, Stroh's, Fallstaff ($3 a case in college-more than half was the bottle deposit), Goebels, Old style, and Old Milwaukee. If hipsters take to any of these they it's just ironic enough for me to laugh at them. Also Molson or Moosehead. Keystone does not count as Beer. If Hipsters want Hip beer go to a brew pub, or get togetrher and make your own. Girls too, for most of human history women smoked the meat and brewed the beer.

When I was drinking underage, there were Bud bars or Miller bars--- same concept how restaurants don't serve both Coke and Pepsi. I believe the mafia controlled liquor distribution. There were few choices from one family of brands. But men were men--- and some hipster wearing woman's clothes 'might' have gotten served at a gay bar.

2)People in upper economic classes trying to emulate being in a lower economic class as a fashion choice

Yes. And "discovering" and "gentrifying" old urban neighborhoods so badly that the people who grew up there and whose parents grew up there can't afford to live there or even eat out there anymore. My old neighborhood, Hampden in Baltimore, is a case in point: one ratty old dive bars that had four pool tables and Red White & Blue on tap are now "locavore bistro." An apartment in a rowhouse that was $325 in 1991 now goes for three times that. And buying a house in Hampden? That's something you do when your parents give you the downpayment as a reward for getting non-gaily married.

It's funny how the Hampsters think the white urban working class used to dress back in the '70s. (If there's such a thing as black hipsters in Baltimore do they dress like Superfly?)

I think the next hipster beer of choice should be chosen like the pope:The council of hipsters will convene in an ironic dive bar and not come out until the new hipster beer is chosen. They will signal that they've come to a decision by igniting their neck beards and playing a track by a band you've never heard of. Then, and only then, will we have a new hipster beer

orange whip:I think the next hipster beer of choice should be chosen like the pope:The council of hipsters will convene in an ironic dive bar and not come out until the new hipster beer is chosen. They will signal that they've come to a decision by igniting their neck beards and playing a track by a band you've never heard of. Then, and only then, will we have a new hipster beer